Since the time I started to work for money, my job title has been an analyst. My job title changed several times in the last 4 years, but it always ended as some analyst. At first it felt nice to say I was an analyst than to recite the usual 'I am a software engineer'. However, I learnt only later that calling oneself an analyst has its own disadvantages.
First of all, when people ask what an analyst does, I always struggle to quantify my work in less than a 1000 words; by then the person who asks me the question is in deep sleep. You see, being an analyst, you do several things. And sometimes you do nothing. So after sometime, when I told people only the nothing part, they were surprised that I was getting paid for nothing.
And then one day, when a pretty girl asked me the usual 'So what do you do for a living?' question, I geared up to impress her with yet another 1000 word I am the king of the world speech and started with the 'I am an analyst' line. To my surprise the girl did not ask me the 'What does that mean?' question but instead dived into her handbag and gave me a bottle.
I took the bottle from her and asked 'What is this?'
'That's my urine sample. You said you were an analyst right? So could you analyse my urine and tell me if I have swine flu?'
3 comments:
super post :)
lmao, I've had my fair share of explaining why bits/rajasthan? what is mms? who is F&S? wat auto consultant? . . . . and now I dont even answer such qns, I just say, take a guess! :)
I would ve said you studied 4 years to learn to send an MMS and auto consultant is the guy who sits in the pre-paid auto booth in central station deciding what fares will be charged for who
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